Anyone using ReadyNAS NV+?
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If you are using it, how is your experience with it? Is it as rosy as painted in all the reviews? :)
I'm not using the ReadyNAS NV+, but I do use a Thecus N5200 with 5x500 GB drives in RAID 5. Generally, speaking, these NASes are pretty similar, although I believe the ReadyNAS NV+ to be a slow NAS (from what I've seen in the reviews). Back then, the Thecus N5200 was much faster and one of few competitors in the market. Now, there is also the ReadyNAS Pro, Thecus N7700/8800, and a whole slew of products from different companies like Synology, QNAP, etc.
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If you are using it, how is your experience with it? Is it as rosy as painted in all the reviews? :)
I do. Mine works pretty well. I don't find it exceptionally slow .. probably in the "average" range. Fast enough to run XP in a VM with the disk hosted on the NAS. It works brilliantly for serving media, but the backup features are a little retarded (no comments about how a NAS and it's user become more and more alike .. that's canines, you devils! :^)
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If you are using it, how is your experience with it? Is it as rosy as painted in all the reviews? :)
If you are on the verge of buying a NAS, stick to the Pro - the NV+ is rather dated. The Pro, however, works like a charm. I'm having over 80 MB/s without any tweaking and dual redundancy :-)
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If you are using it, how is your experience with it? Is it as rosy as painted in all the reviews? :)
Yep I do...got 4 1Tb WD Green drives in it, originally had 2 500gb's, then 4 500gb's. Had no major issues, had to replace the PSU after it got a bit to knocked about in a house move. Active community at readynas.com, with very helpful and responsive mods. The takeover by netgear doesn't seem to have hindered or dented the support or the development of new features in the firmware. I don't get great network speeds out of it, but I think that's more my setup than the device.